Design Ideas/Sumissions

[Kamisamanou Burgess]

On 9/13/07, Jonathan Steffan <jonathansteffan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Team,
>
>     So, my best skill is not designing stylish and good lookin'
> websites. I can hack things along, but that is what they end up
> looking like.
>
>     I'm submitting a request for design ideas for a Fedora Pastebin. I
> started something, it works, it looks ok; but the graphics are not
> mine. On that note, if the graphics used are yours... may we use them?
> ;-) I found them on the wiki. Anywho, I'd love ideas and proposals. If
> anyone has time to do a mock up, or even just give feedback, that
> would be awesome. The second request is for a Fedora Search System.
> Again, I can hack something together, but would rather spend the time
> actually making the search system work well. Any feedback and design
> mockups are very welcome.
>
>     * Pastebin: http://f3dora.org/ (or http://paste.fedoraunity.org)
>       ... (or hopefully also http://paste.fedoraproject.org/). The
>       pastebin runs on turbo gears using the Stickum codebase
>       (http://code.google.com/p/stickum/) which uses the genshi
>       engine. I can port any design over to the template engine so
>       don't restrict yourself worrying about what templating engine is
>       in use.
>     * Search System: http://searchfedora.org/ . This system has not
>       been worked on for quite some time now. I just ran out of free
>       time. I've started working on it again. It is really going to be
>       awesome. I'd really like a kickass design for it as I see this
>       system bringing great value to the community. I'm hoping I have
>       time to fix it up in the next few days. I've been packaging up
>       the code that runs it the last day or so and expect to run
>       another index soon. The template engine is fairly homebrew, but
>       has very, very few limitations. I'm looking to integrate a cool
>       image I've found on the wiki
>
> (
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/Mascot?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=more_alien3_n.png
> )
>       but really can't spend time designing the interface while at the
>       same time working on the backend.
>
>     I really hope there is some interest from this team to be a part
> of these two projects. I'll end up hacking together designs for both
> if I don't find any takers. Thanks for working on Fedora! We all
> appreciate the hard work our websites team puts into the look and feel
> of our presence on the Internet.
>
> Jonathan Steffan
> daMaestro
>
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What exactly is the purpose of the PasteBin? Could you give an example of
how it would be used to benefit the community?
Also, you should talk to someone in the artwork list about those images.

-- 
Sayonara,
Kamisamanou Burgess
Kamisamanou.net - http://www.kamisamanou.net
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